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ALA 2026: The Novel of Ideas in American Fiction
ALA Annual Conference (May 20-23, Chicago, IL)
This year’s conference will be held July 22-26, 2026 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The ATHE Religion & Theatre focus group invites current graduate students and/or independent scholars who have not presented at ATHE to submit papers for the 2026 Emerging Scholars Panel.
2026 Conference Theme: “Activating Imagination in/and Community”
This year’s conference theme, "Activating Imagination in/and Community," asks us to think deeply and courageously about the role of theatre and performance in shaping our shared presents and collective futures. It challenges us to contemplate not just what we do, but how and with whom we do it.
Sacred Arts 2026:
Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/11/sacred-arts-2026/
University of Oxford
and online
May 16-17, 2026
Registration fees (for both attendees and presenters):
Lolly Willowes at 100: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Religion, and the Supernatural
IAS Common Ground, University College London, 29-30 May 2026
Call for Papers 2026
For the inaugural 2026 meeting of our research group, Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Bible and the Ancient Mediterranean, we invite papers that explore how ancient identities were forged, reshaped, or contested in contexts of conflict, tension, and instability. Our theme for this year is Contested Identities in the Bible and the Ancient Mediterranean: Identity Formation in Contexts of Struggle and Conflict.
FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES
September 25th 2026 marks the 400th anniversary of Lancelot Andrewes’ death. It also marks the 100th anniversary of an essay by T. S. Eliot which appeared first in the TLS and was later collected into the volume named after it: For Lancelot Andrewes. This essay instigated modern critical interest in Andrewes’ intellectual and imaginative legacy, and is a significant event not just for sermon studies but for the conjunction of modernism and early modernism, and the influence of the renaissance period on the poets and thinkers of the twentieth century and beyond.
Plant Lives: Sacred Interdependencies in the Arts of the Americas
A planting event and conference hosted by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music
April 11, 2026
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will host two panels at the 37th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 20-23, 2026 in Chicago. We invite proposals for presentations on any aspect of Gilman’s life and work.
Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:
United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026
Two-day gathering will explore the religious and racialized roots of American democracy and paths toward a more just future.
United Lutheran Seminary (ULS) will host A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy: Examining the Religious and Racialized Roots of American Democracy on February 27–28, 2026, at its Philadelphia campus. The interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars, activists, educators, and faith leaders to examine how religion and race have shaped democratic life in the United States and to explore liberative visions for the future.
Astrology in Focus:
Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
A Transdisciplinary Conference
January 18-20, 2026
Format: Online
Fee: 100 GBP
Call for Papers:
“Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”, Carl Jung
Call for papers – Series of Workshops on Sacred Writing Traditions
The HaZen (Handschriftenzentrum) project, based at the Institute for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, would like to invite international researchers to three workshops in Berlin.
International Symposium: SDGs through Hindu Worldviews – Spiritual Care in a VUCA–BANI World
January 30–31, 2026 | IIT (BHU), Varanasi | Hybrid (Online + Offline)
This issue aims to publish essays on climate fiction and its related topics that are approached through the lens of Christian theological and literary interpretation.
Dear Colleagues,
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce an upcoming conference as part of our biannual celebration of Popular Culture and the Deep Past (PCDP) in 2026. We warmly invite abstracts exploring topics related to medieval and Renaissance astrology and astronomy.Call for PapersStar Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance ImaginationPopular Culture and the Deep Past 2026
April 10-11, 2026
Online via Zoom & Ohio Union - The Ohio State University
The submission deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is December 19, 2025.
Greetings from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights!
The 2026 International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) Conference is being held at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on August 12-16, 2026.
Beauty and the Revival of Faith will take place on 8-10 May, 2026, at the Archbishop’s Palace, Southwell, Nottingham, U.K.
Since 1975, pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual (formerly Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review) has thrived as an experimental editorial cohort made up of driven, wily, undergraduates & graduate students in the department of english and Comparative Literature, san diego state university, san diego, ca 92182-6020. This year, we take on comix again!
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS: CALL FOR PAPERS
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, JUNE 19-21, 2026
The Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus, in collaboration with The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies, The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London, Baylor University, the Modern Greek Studies Program at Rutgers University, and The Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, is pleased to announce an international conference dedicated to the life, work, and legacy of Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957), to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from June 19 to June 21, 2026.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Chinmaya75 International Conference
8–10 May 2026
Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) • Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (CVV) • CIF
Shodha Sansthan (CIFSS)
Website: https://chinfo.org/icsc2026
Email: icsc2026@cvv.ac.in
Call for Special Issues: Christianity and Literature
As a peer-reviewed journal publishing since 1951, Christianity and Literature invites proposals for Special Issues exploring focused topics at the intersection of Christian faith and literary expression. We are interested in issues that address, but are not limited to, the following areas:
We invite scholars in religious studies and related fields to submit proposals for chapters
that will contribute to an edited volume on Metamodern Spiritualities.
This volume will be the first of its kind to explore metamodernism as manifested in 21st century
religious/spiritual institutions, beliefs and practices. We seek contributions from
different disciplinary perspectives that critically adopt or adapt Vermeulen and Van den
Akker’s theory of metamodernism to contemporary religious/spiritual phenomena. We
welcome submissions that include, but are not limited to, theories and case studies of:
How do we mark transitions, generate transformational visions, and model alternate ways of being in a world imploding around us? How do we find joy while surrounded by brokenness? How do we heal when systems are structured against us? What rituals or practices can restore us, even speak to our souls? The next issue of Rejoinder explores the theme of ritual, healing, and world-making. Submissions (including essays, commentary, criticism, fiction, poetry, and artwork) should address this theme from feminist, queer, and social justice-inspired perspectives. We particularly welcome contributions at the intersection of scholarship and activism.
Call for Papers: 2026 Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference
The Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference is pleased to announce its second annual conference. We invite presenters from graduate students and emerging scholars working in philosophy of religion, theology, and religious thought within Korean studies. We especially welcome proposals that challenge, expand, and reinterpret the concept of “Korean” in religious discourses, while engaging in dialogue with political theory, comparative religious studies, sociology and anthropology, critical literary studies, intellectual history, and other related disciplines.
Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 9, 2025
Conference Dates: December 8-9, 2025
Location: online
Fees: £100 (non-members)
Call for Papers
This special panel to be held in the Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association seeks 15-20 minute conference presentations from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives examining any and all aspects of the emerging trend of “reality shifting” in relation to popular culture, particularly that of Generation Z.
The esoteric, occult, and magical roots of deep ecology have become increasingly interconnected with the growing popularity of witchcraft practices, neopagan worldviews, and explicitly spiritual climate activism and environmentalism. These developments include specific foci on particular ecological concerns and crises, but such trends are equally exemplified by transdisciplinary dialogues in which holistic scientific perspectives intersect with diverse systems of belief. This special panel seeks 15-20 conference presentations to explore these connections and their influence on, reception by, and expression through popular culture in any and all of its manifestations.
The extraordinary success of K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025) as the most-watched original title in the history of Netflix (with over 325 million views) invites the reconsideration of a surprisingly vast and multivalent “mega-trope” that has proliferated throughout popular culture in numerous variations for centuries. Its deep roots in folklore and mythology remain to be further explored, mapped, and connected with its various historical expressions throughout indigenous worldviews, Classical cultures and civilizations into Late Antiquity and ultimately through the global Middle Ages and straight through into the interactions of Western, East/Asian, and diverse global civilizations of the contemporary period. While this mega-trope is here identified
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
NEW submission deadline: November 14, 2025
35TH ANNUAL BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 20-21, 2026
DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH GA
From Unit Chairs:
The religious experience is of significant and acute concern among our varied African diasporic communities and is worthy of close academic exploration and study. The American Academy of Religion - Western Region (AAR-WR) Black Religion and Theology Unit’s mission is to further the development of scholarly research and discussion about the black religious experience; encourage the broadening of Black religion as an academic endeavor; and engage in discourse, from the African diasporic perspective, about religious and theological expression.